Car end sill.



m. 715,075. Patented Dec. 2. I902.

n. H. HORNBRU-UK.

CAR END SILL.

(Application filed. Oct. 2, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT ()EFICE.

RAYMOND II. HORNBROOK, OF CANTON, OHIO.

CAR END SILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 715,075, dated December 2, 1902.

Application filed October 2, 1902.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RAYMOND H. HORN- BROOK, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Canton, in the count-y of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Oar End Sill, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to railway-car-fraine construction, with ordinary structural-steel shapes, and has for its object the making of an end sill out of two Z-bars, joined on the end of structural-shape side and center sills, with gusset-plates in the corner-angles, channel-bar diagonal braces, and angle-plates at the various junctions, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view showing the car-frame end construction; Fig. 2, an under innerperspective view of one corner, and Fig. 3 a detached perspective View showing the manner of cutting and forming the diagonal braces.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

The side sills 1 and the center sills 2 of the car-frame are preferably made of similar channel-bars, with squared ends and having the flanges directed outward for the side sills and inward for the center sills.

The end sill 3 is made of two similar Z-bars having two flanges 4, joined and directed inward, the webs 5 butting against the ends of the side and center sills, and the other two flanges 6 above and below directed freely outward. The notches 7 are cut in the ends of the webs of the center sills to receive the inwardly-projecting flanges 4 of the end sill, and these flanges of the end sill are cut off near the ends thereof, as at 8, to butt against the inner faces of the webs of the side sills. The angle-plates 9 are riveted to join the respective webs of the end sill Z-bars to the webs of the channel-bar center sills on either side of the latter bars, and the corner angleplates, as at 10, are riveted to join the webs of the end sill Z-bars to the webs of the channel-bar side sills. Short angle-bar sections are riveted on the inner sides of the side sills, as at 11, the projecting flange being in the same plane as the joined flanges of the end sill Zbars, and on these flanges, in each corserial No. 125,637. (No model.)

ner, is riveted the triangular gusset-plate 12, which serves to strengthen and brace the corner. 'The channel-bar diagonal braces 13 are riveted by their lower flanges on the gusset-plates and have their flanges cut away, as at 14, to correspond to the corner-angle of the car-frame, after which the projecting part of the web 15 is bent around the ends of these flanges, which ends so formed of the diagonal braces are butted in the corners of the side sills with the end sills, the respective adjoining webs being riveted together. The other ends of the diagonal braces have their flanges cut away, and the projecting parts of the Webs 16 are bent to fit and are riveted to the center sills.

It will be understood that I-beams or other suitable structural shapes can be substituted for the channel-bar side and center sills without affecting the general nature of myinvention, and, if desired, the joined flanges of the Z-bar end sills need not be cut off at the end, in which case the webs of the side sills are notched at the ends, the same as the webs of the center sills, to receive these flanges, and the angle-plates are arranged in the same manner as described and illustrated for the center sills; but I prefer to construct and assemble the parts as illustrated, because it makes a stronger and neater combination.

\Nhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. In a car, structural-shape side and center sills, there being notches in the Webs of the center sills, and an end sill made of Z- bars having two flanges joined and entered in said notches and the ends of said flanges cut off and butting against the inner faces of the side sills, with angle-plates riveted to the respective sills at their junctions.

2. In a car, structural-shape side and center sills, there being notches in the webs of the center sills, and an end sill made of 2- bars having .two flanges joined and entered in said notches, with angle-plates riveted to the respective sills at their junctions.

3. In a car, structural-shape side and center sills there being notches in the webs of the center sills, an end sill made of Z-bars having two flanges joined and entered in said notches, an gle-bars riveted on the inner faces of said side sills with their flanges in the plane of said Z-bar flanges, and triangular gussetplates riveted on said flanges.

4. In a car, structural-shape side sills, an end sill made of Z-bars having two flanges joined and turned inward, angle-bars riveted on the inner faces of said side sills, with their flanges in the plane of said Z-bar flanges, and

6. In a car, structural shape side sills, an end sill made of Z-bars having two flanges joined and turned inward, angle-bars riveted on the inner faces of said side sills with their flanges in the plane of saidZ-bar flanges, triangular gusset-plates riveted on said flanges, and channel-bar diagonal braces riveted by their lower flanges on the gusset-plate and having their flanges cut away and the free end of their webs bent around to fit the corner-angle of said sills, to which sills said webs are riveted.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RAYMOND H. I-IORNBROOK.

Witnesses:

HARRY FREASE, JOSEPH FREASE. 

